It all began, perhaps, a little over 30 years ago with the brilliant and misunderstood intuition of Graeme Obree, the Scottish cyclist who made a bicycle with scrap metal and bearings from a washing machine, designed a helmet that widened towards the shoulders and, using a posture copied from downhill skiers, neck over the handlebars, … Read more
It all began, perhaps, a little over 30 years ago with the brilliant and misunderstood intuition of Graeme Obree, the Scottish cyclist who made a bicycle with scrap metal and bearings from a washing machine, designed a helmet that widened towards the shoulders and, using a posture copied from downhill skiers, neck over the handlebars, … Read more
Vingegaard attacks on Mount Aloia under the deluge followed by Lenny Martínez.Luis Angel Gomez / SprintCycling (EFE/ SprintCycling) Wind that tears off antennas and knocks down trees; rain that falls in torrents and Jonas Vingegaard, who in cannibal Galicia devours everything and wins all the stages that counted for the general classification, the last three, … Read more
All roads lead to Rome, the saying goes, and Ezequiel Mosquera, who is Galician and organizes O Gran Camiño, a cycling race that always revolves around Santiago, corrects him. “All roads come from Paris, like children and their storks,” he says. “Or from Rome, even.” Furthermore, they could add, they even come from Copenhagen, and … Read more